Acknowledgments
The Bs Take Flight: An Introduction
1. Hollywood in Transition: The Business of 1950s Filmmaking
2. The Battle Begins: Hollywood Reacts, Poverty Row Collapses
3. The Rebirth of the B-Movie in the 1950s
4. Attack of the Independent: American International Pictures
and the B-Movie
5. Small Screen, Smaller Pictures: New Perspectives on 1950s
Television and B-Movies
6. Big B, Little b: A Case Study of Three Films
7. Notes from the Underground: The Legacy of the 1950s B-Movie
Notes
Index
BLAIR DAVIS is an assistant professor in the College of Communication at DePaul University. His essays appear in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television and the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, and in such anthologies as American Horror Film, Caligari’s Heirs, and Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear.
"The Battle for the Bs is a highly-readable book that shies away
from the jargon that often accompanies film theory, which will make
it valuable to students studying film history as well as students
who want to learn more about mid-twentieth century cultural
history."
*Studies in American Culture*
"Trenchantly, Blair Davis upends commonplaces about B-movies as
marginal, demonstrating instead their centrality to American cinema
and, indeed, to mid-century popular culture overall. A rich,
rigorous contribution to film history."
*New York University*
"Blair Davis has rescued low-budget cinema from scholarly neglect
with this excellent and persuasive account, a fine example of
superior scholarship."
*Louisiana State University*
"A fascinating study of post-World War II cinema."
*Journal of American History*
"The Battle for the Bs is a highly-readable book that shies away
from the jargon that often accompanies film theory, which will make
it valuable to students studying film history as well as students
who want to learn more about mid-twentieth century cultural
history."
*Studies in American Culture*
"Trenchantly, Blair Davis upends commonplaces about B-movies as
marginal, demonstrating instead their centrality to American cinema
and, indeed, to mid-century popular culture overall. A rich,
rigorous contribution to film history."
*New York University*
"Blair Davis has rescued low-budget cinema from scholarly neglect
with this excellent and persuasive account, a fine example of
superior scholarship."
*Louisiana State University*
"A fascinating study of post-World War II cinema."
*Journal of American History*
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